Usually means: Forced sexual intercourse without consent.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. rapes: Merriam-Webster
  2. rapes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rapes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rapes, rapes: Wordnik
  5. rapes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Rapes, rapes: Wiktionary
  7. rapes: Dictionary.com
  8. rapes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Rapes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. rapes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rapes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. rapes: Legal dictionary

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  1. rapes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rapes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rapes: Medical dictionary

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  1. Rapes: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rape)

noun:  The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
noun:  (slang, sometimes offensive) An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
noun:  Overpowerment; utter defeat.
noun:  An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
noun:  (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
noun:  (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
noun:  (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
verb:  (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
verb:  (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
verb:  (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
verb:  (men's slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
verb:  To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
verb:  To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
noun:  (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
noun:  (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
adverb:  (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
noun:  Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
noun:  The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
noun:  A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
noun:  A surname.
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